C. Purcell McCue
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Member, Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
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Electoral District | Samuel Miller District | |
Term Start | 1920 | |
Biographical Information
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C. Purcell McCue represented the Samuel Miller Magisterial District on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors for 36 years.[1] He was elected in November 1919 and served through 1955, including as chairman beginning in 1948.[2][3]
McCue was born in Greenwood on August 15, 1880.[4] He attended Albemarle public schools then Pantops Academy 1896-1898, before enrolling as a sophomore at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Tech) in 1899. Instead of returning for his senior year in 1901, McCue joined the apple & peach orchard business his father had started seven years prior. After a stint with a railroad contractor from 1904-1907 he returned to the orchard business, now known as McCue & Son.[4]
From 1912–1916 McCue served as Albemarle's Justice of the Peace. During his time as a supervisor, McCue chaired the Citizens League that spearheaded Albemarle's 1933 shift to a county executive form of government. In January 1952, he and another supervisors supported county executive Dan A. Robinson on a mechanism for how livestock should be assessed for tax purposes.[5]
Purcell married Mary Ellen Allen on November 22, 1916. Mary was a descendant of Rev. James MacGill (1701–1779), an early settler of Anne Arundel County (now Howard County) in Maryland.[6] They had two children, C. Purcell McCue, Jr. (b. November 11, 1918), who took charge of the orchard after service in the Army; and Margaret Persis (b. 1921), wife of Lt. Col. W. R. Washington. The children attended Greenwood School, where McCue presided over a 1921 cornerstone-laying ceremony for a new school building.[7]
The McCue Family Papers, ca. 1967–1944 are hosted at the University of Virginia Small Special Collections Library.
Positions
- Justice of the Peace, Albemarle County (1912–1916)
- Supervisor, Albemarle County (1919–1955)
- Chairman of Board of Supervisors, Albemarle County (1948–1954)
- President, Appalachian Apple Service, an industry group (1936–1953)
- President, Agricultural Conference Board of Virginia (several years)
- Chairman, Citizens League (1933)
- President, Virginia State Horticultural Society (four terms including 1917,[8] six years as one of six vice presidents prior[4][9])
References
- ↑ Web. Mr. Rinehart Chairman of County Board, Daily, Daily Progress Digitzed Microfilm, University of Virginia Library, January 6, 1920, retrieved June 28, 2015.
- ↑ Web. County of Albemarle, Albemarle County Board of Supervisors Minutes, Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, Albemarle County, December 21, 1955, retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ↑ Web. Uniform County Tax Rate of $2.65 Voted by Board, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, April 14, 1948, retrieved January 15, 2017 from University of Virginia Library. Print. April 14, 1948 page 1.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Web. Class Of 1902 -- Biographical Sketches, Virginia Tech, 1955, retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ↑ Web. Supervisors Clarify Scale For Putting Tax Value on Livestock, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 29, 1952, retrieved January 28, 2017 from University of Virginia Library.
- ↑ Book. The Macgill - McGill Family of Maryland: A Genealogical Record of over 400 years Beginning 1537, ending 1948, Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ↑ Book. Greenwood School Memories 1921-1984, Meeks Enterprises, retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ↑ Book. Report: Twenty-Second Annual Session of the Virginia State Horticultural Society, Virginia State Horticultural Society, retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ↑ Web. Dr. Fletcher Succeeds Thompson as President, Harrisonburg Daily News-Record, January 14:1916, retrieved 2019-03-11.